Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.